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It's Not Easy Being Green
SHREK is the latest full length computer animated movie released by Dreamworks/PDI studio. This highly entertaining movie is based on the book by William Steig. An Ogre named Shrek (Mike Myers) sets out on an adventure, to rescue Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz), with help from his donkey sidekick (Eddie Murphy). By doing so, the 2 hope to win back the deed to the swamp, where Shrek lives...Only the evil Lord Farquaad (John Lithgow) has no plans to give up either possession any time soon. The movie is very funny, and like PDI's previous effort ANTZ, is as much for adults, as it is for kids. As expected, Myers doesn't let the voice only role, limit his performance. In fact, everyone does a fine job here. and the film is lots of fun. The CG animation is spectacular. The detail is amazing and rivals ANTZ--wow.

The 2 disc DVD set features the film in both widescreen and full frame viewing formats. The extras are loaded with gems. Some highlights include Hidden Fun Facts about the film, you can also record your own voice over 12 scenes in the movie (great, Especially, if there are kids in the house), Funny on screen character interviews and an interactive activity center with games that even adults will enjoy...and that's just on disc one

Disc 2 highlights are a light filmmakers commentary track, storyboards of deleted scenes, a featurette on how Shrek sounds in other languages from different countries, and some technical goofs that made it into the finished film. A really entertaining film and fun DVD extras, heck, even the access menus are fun, make for a highly recommendeded set

Wonderful!
Shrek wants just one thing: to be left alone in his swamp. You'd think an ogre wouldn't have a problem keeping people away. Unfortunately, there's this talking donkey who won't leave. In addition, Lord Farquaar has decided that Shrek's swamp makes a fine refugee camp for fairy tale creatures. In order to reclaim his peace and quiet, Shrek agrees to go on a quest, with donkey in tow, to rescue the Princess Fiona and deliver her to Lord Farquaar.

The bare bones of this story only hints at the wonderfully demented sensibility of this movie, and the delightful ways familiar fairy tales are turned on their heads. Kids and parents alike will love the many sight gags, one-liners and instances of potty humor. Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy are just plain funny. This feel-good, laugh-until-it-hurts movie will entertain the entire family.

Don't forget to stick around after the credits for the karaoke song and dance extra. No viewing of Shrek is complete with a family sing-along at the end.

Great Fun, Despite the Hollywood Hypocrisy
"Shrek" has been hailed as the greatest thing in animation since sliced bread, if sliced bread had ever been animated. "Shrek" has been hyped to death and won the first ever Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film.

Make no mistake, this movie is great fun. Mike Myers is great fun as Shrek, the ogre with the Greta Garbo complex, whose quiet existence in his swamp is disrupted by Lord Farquaad, voiced in hissably evil style by John Lithgow, who has evicted all the local fairy-tale creatures and dumped them in Shrek's swamp. Shrek and his unwelcome new side-kick a talking donkey, voiced hysterically Eddie Murphy), reach a deal with Farquaad to fetch the short prince a bride in the form of Princess Fiona, voiced by Cameron Diaz, who they must rescue from a dragon's lair, complete with fire-breathing dragon.

All well and good, and lot's of fun is to be had by all. Parents should be warned that this film has a harder edge than Disney's typical animation, and the "PG" rating is well-deserved.

But there are problems with this film. First, there's the troubling Hollywood hypocrisy. This film's laudable message is not to judge other's on their appearance. Great. Swell. So what do we have? A villian with a Napoleon Complex, and a slew of short jokes.

Also, a great deal of the humor in this film comes from the skewering of Mouse, Inc., not that there's anything wrong with lampooning Mickey & Co. The jokes are great, the problem is that there are so many Disney gags that the film gets sidetracked at times, disrupting the pacing of the film. One get's the feeling that a lot of the praise this film has received has been because there has finally been a legitimate animated film produced by someone other than Disney.

Despite these flaws and cautions, "Shrek" is a whole lot of fun. Eddie Murphy steals the show as Donkey. Mike Myers gives Shreck a Scottish accent, and Cameron Diaz has fun with her role of Princess Fiona. While the Disney bashing detracts from the flow of the film, the jokes are hysterical and the satire is dead-on, and well deserved.

This DVD contains a number of nice goodies, such as the kaoroke number and some storyboards presentations of deleted scenes, and it has a fun and enjoyable soundtrack.

I reccomend this film despite the flaws, as the fun factor for "Shrek" is as big as an ogre.

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